Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Toug…

- Gene Kranz

We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

- Gene Kranz

Failure is not an option!

- Gene Kranz

You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

- Gene Kranz

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or tes…

- Gene Kranz

We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But wh…

- Gene Kranz

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or w…

- Gene Kranz

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

- Gene Kranz

There is no achievement without risk.

- Gene Kranz